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Tasmin Little OBE, FGSM, Hon RAM, ARCM (Hons)

" One of the supremely great violinists of our time" Music-Web International

" Little can justly be regarded as Britain's finest violinist " Independent

Tasmin Little has firmly established herself as one of today's leading international violinists. She has performed on every continent in some of the most prestigious venues of the world, including Carnegie Hall, Musikverein, Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre and , and Suntory Hall.

Tasmin’s concerto appearances include those with Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bournemouth Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, City of Birmingham Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra, Poland, Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto - Casa da Musica, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, , West Australian Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, and all the BBC Orchestras.

Her multi-award winning and varied career encompasses international concerto and recital performances, master classes, workshops and community outreach work. Tasmin's discography and performance schedule reflect her wide-ranging repertoire and she has given numerous World Premiere performances including concerti by Willem Jeths, Robin de Raaf, Stuart MacRae, Robert Saxton and Dominic Muldowney. Her newly commissioned work, Four World Seasons by Roxanna Panufnik, was premiered as a live broadcast on the BBC at the start of Music Nation weekend, leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games. She remains one of the few violinists to perform Ligeti's challenging and has performed this work at the Berlin Philharmonie, New York Carnegie Hall, Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Philadelphia Kimmel Center.

Tasmin enjoys a very active recital life that sees her performing at all the major festivals and venues throughout the including BBC broadcast recitals from The and Cheltenham Festival. She is a returning recital and artist at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, , has performed recital tours for Chamber Music New Zealand, and recent international recitals include those at Hong Kong City Hall; as part of the inaugural season of “Music in the Studio” Dubai; at the Presidential Palace, Malta; in the Melbourne Recital Center, Uzon Room, Sydney, and Ukaria in Australia; for the Newport, Eastern Music, Virginia Arts and Chauttauqua International Music Festivals, and Delius Society, Philadelphia in the USA; and for the International Music Festival, Godella, Spain.

Tasmin is an exclusive recording artist for Chandos Records. Her recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the Royal National Scottish Orchestra garnered outstanding critical acclaim and was awarded the Critic's Choice Award in the 2011 . Her recording of the Britten Concerto with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic, released in 2013, also received lavish critical praise - “one of the finest (versions) committed to disc”, “a rapturous disc”, “an incandescent commitment to the work”, “her virtuosity is breathtaking”. Other releases for Chandos include a disc of British orchestral works of violin concerti by Coleridge Taylor and Haydn Wood and the Delius Suite with the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis, a French Violin Sonatas disc of sonatas by Lekeu, Ravel and Fauré with , a British Violin Sonatas disc of works by Ferguson, Britten and Walton with , and a 2 CD-set of Schubert Chamber Works with Tim Hugh and Piers Lane. In February 2016, Tasmin released a highly-acclaimed triple CD of the complete Beethoven sonatas with Martin Roscoe, which was launched following a concert at London's Wigmore Hall. The Sunday Times chose this recording as its Album of the Week - “Neither artist has done anything finer on disc.” During the 17/18 season, the World Premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s Four World Seasons written for Tasmin and coupled with Vivaldi Four Seasons and recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is widely hailed by critics for its ‘virtuosity’, ‘vivid sense of character’ and ‘lustrous tone’ (Gramophone) was released together with a disc of Franck, Szymanowski and Fauré with pianist Piers Lane and The Violin Concerti by Szymanowski and Karlowicz with Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and finally Brahms’ Three Violin Sonatas with Piers Lane, piano

More recently Tasmin returned to the studio to record several further discs to add to her ever expanding discography for Chandos. Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethyl Smythe, and is a recital disc with John Lenehan, piano while Strauss’ Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Michael Collins was released in May 2019.

Album awards also include a Gramophone Award for Audience Innovation for her ground-breaking musical outreach programme, The Naked Violin, a Diapason d'Or for her disc of Delius Violin Sonatas with Piers Lane.

In her homeland, Tasmin returns regularly to the UK orchestras, recent performances including those with the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Osmo Vånska, Szymanowksi violin concerto no.2 with Edward Gardner at the Barbican Centre, Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall and with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

In 2008, Tasmin launched her project, The Naked Violin, aimed at breaking down barriers to by releasing a free CD for download on her website, and performing in the community where music is rarely heard. Within days of the CD release, 6,500 websites had linked to Tasmin’s site and within a few months, more than half a million people had visited and downloaded. The project was filmed for television by ITV’s The South Bank Show and continues both in UK and has toured in America, China, New Zealand, Ireland and United Arab Emirates (Dubai).

Tasmin Little is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (FGSM), a Vice President of the Elgar Society, an Ambassador for The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts, and for Youth Music, and has received Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Bradford, Leicester, Hertfordshire and City of London. In 2016, she was awarded Honorary Membership of the (Hon RAM) by the Academy and the University of London. Tasmin is the recipient of the Gold Badge Award for Services to Music. In December 2019, Tasmin accepted the role of Co-President of The School with Daniel Barenboim.

In 2012, Tasmin Little was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List, for Services to Music. She plays a 1757 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin.

After more than 30 years on the concert platform and over 2000 performances, Tasmin will step down from the stage in the summer of 2020 to pursue other interests.

Tasmin Little can be followed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tasminlittle

Tasmin’s website is at: http://www.tasminlittle.org.uk

December 2019